Review: BTW by Lucy Lennox and Molly Maddox
SYNOPSIS:
James:
My assignment is simple: go to the Cape and seal the real estate deal for my most important client. No problem. I’m good at my job, I know how to close a sale, and this time won’t be any different.
Until I meet Sawyer, the sexy young bartender I accidentally kiss in the broom closet. Turns out, he’s one of the owners I’m here to negotiate with.
Okay, so that complicates things. As does the fact that he doesn’t want to sell. Or that we can’t keep our hands off each other despite being on opposite sides. And most of all… that I might be falling for him even though I know better. I’ve made the mistake of falling for a younger man before and I won’t do it again.
Sawyer:
For me, family is everything, and nothing represents ours more than the Sea Sprite, the motel that’s been in my family for eighty years. Sure, others (*cough*James*cough*) may describe it as rundown or derelict or in desperate need of a wrecking ball. But I call it our legacy.
I’ve got plans — big plans to renovate the motel back to its vintage glory. The only thing standing in my way is James Allen, the fancy-schmancy lawyer from New York with his adorable smile, jaw-dropping assets, and his client’s millions of dollars.
James seems hellbent on destroying my future. But maybe there’s a way for us to build a new one together…
REVIEW:
I was delighted when I saw the next book in the After Oscar Series was recently released. I read the synopsis and thought that this might be just the book I was looking for, but yet it left me somewhat disappointed as I read the last page.
I liked both James and Sawyer as characters, they had an undeniable chemistry and it was fairly obvious, early on that these men were going to click. There were numerous giggle worthy moments in the first quarter of the story and they had me excited for the rest of the book. From their meet cute to their actual meeting…I was grinning like a fool. But as the story progresses, it loses some of this initial magic.
I think a big portion of this is that this book is an insta-love story. I mean, they knew each other for several days, had a few external encounters, and they both were willing to throw away their entire lives for each other. And this was just something I couldn’t buy into. Throughout the rest of the story there was a voice in the back of my head constantly whispering how they hardly knew each other and had no foundation for a relationship. Which I mean, it wasn’t wrong. There are some tender, heartfelt moments but at the end of the day, I don’t really know what makes either of these men tick on a deeper level.
The ending was stupidly cute and I liked the Oscar tie in throughout the story. It was enough to pull Oscar into the story and shed more light on him but at the same time, he didn’t control the story line. I loved that you got glimpses of the previous couples in the series but I have to say that the Author’s Note mentions the next story is James’ ex…and I really, really, really don’t like that.
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